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$76 Billion in Sales from Products on a Kitchen Table

Horace Dediu writes on asymco

All the products Apple sells can fit on one average sized kitchen table and they generated $76 billion in sales last year


Drag of the Installed Base: what to do about legacy systems?

Don't pay attention to the politics in  this Washington Post article, "Old Technology Foils Schwarzenegger's Wage Order," but skip to the bottom of the first page for this quote:

The state's payroll system was designed more than 60 years ago and was last revamped in 1970, Hallye Jordan, state controller's office spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

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